I'm from Philly and the original stories did say they used the hydrant to fill up the pool. Took about an hour and a half to fill up. I actually think it's a pretty cool idea but I guess the city was pissed about them using the hydrant. Would love to link to the article, but Kinja hates me.

Which makes me wonder why they spend 90% of the memo talking about closing or tapping the hydrants illegally.

In the picture at the top, there are two hoses running into the dumpster - no hydrants involved.

So what they are saying is that if you can fill it up without using a hydrant... game on.

I think it’s time for all nations that want to participate in the Olympics to pony up a few dollars, euros, pounds, shekels, rupees, etc. and give them to Greece, where a permanent dedicated Olympic Village will be built. Greece has no money, but they can donate land. Building it will help the Greek economy. (Why…

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I just love that the Taliban reached out to bloody Bloomberg to clarify what’s going on with their app. I dunno why, but it just seems totally priceless. “Thank you for calling Bloomberg Media! How can I help you?... Oh of course Mr. Mujahed, can you hold for a second?... Great. Have a super day! Allahu Akbar to you…

Should have gotten it endorsed (paid, of course) by the Kardashians.

They want to reach a global audience and they release the app in Pashto? Honestly, that language isn’t anywhere near the top of the list for world’s most spoken languages. If the really wanted to reach the rest of the world they should have released it in English, Spanish, and Mandarin.

they’ve now patented “hills”. it’s really just an expansion of their “rectangle” and “tangible thing” patents.

Cartographers for Social Equality blew my mind in that episode!

I’ve been re-watching season five of Law & Order because I need some comfort television, but a re-watch of The West Wing might be just what I need tonight.

As someone else pointed out, that’d be Tarkin since he gave the order.

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